Voodoo Banshee Windows(r) 98 AGP Driver Kit --------------------------------------- Voodoo Banshee(tm) Driver kit: 1.01.03 Voodoo Banshee DirectX(r) Driver Version: 2.18 Voodoo Banshee Win9x 2D/3D Display Drivers: 4.10.01.0234-1.00 Voodoo Banshee Glide(tm) 2.X Driver: 2.60.00.0122 Voodoo Banshee Glide 3.X Driver: 3.10.00.0122 Voodoo Banshee Control Panel: 1.0.0.0027 Copyright ( 1998 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. ) All Rights Reserved This product may be covered by one or more of the following US patents: 5,724,561 5,740,343 NOTE: Use of this software is subject to the terms in the 3Dfx license agreement. ======================================================================= What's in the distribution? ======================================================================= This distribution contains Voodoo Banshee drivers, control panel for Windows 98. The DirectDraw portion of the drivers supports Direct3D when using DirectX 5.0 NOTE: DirectX 5.0 redistributable files should be used with these drivers! ======================================================================= Installation ======================================================================= Requirements ------------ - Windows 98 - PC with a Pentium, Pentium II, or Pentium Pro Processor and a free PCI or AGP slot - 16MB of RAM Fresh Installation ------------------ NOTE: Complete Steps 1 and 2 before removing your existing 2D card. 1) Extract the files for the Voodoo Banshee driver to a directory. 2) Before removing your existing 2D card switch the video driver to Standard VGA. Click Start, Control Panel. Double-click on Display. Select 640X480 and 16 colors. Accept the changes. 3) Power off the system and remove your existing 2D card. 4) Install the Voodoo Banshee Card in a free PCI or AGP Slot 5) Power on the system and verify that video appears during post. 6) Start Windows in Normal mode (Once Windows starts you may be notified that no video device exists, click Cancel if this message appears) 7) Windows will detect a new VGA Compatible Display. You need to click the Next Button on the Detection Dialog Box and in the "Specify a Location" field click the checkbox then enter the path to the Win98 directory in the drivers location. 8) You may then be prompted to insert the Windows 95 Voodoo Banshee Driver Disk. Again, enter the path you specified in Step 1 and press OK. 9) Windows will copy the drivers. Reboot the system when prompted 10) Install DirectX 5.0. Upgrade Existing Voodoo Banshee Drivers -------------------------------- 1) Start Windows 98 2) Extract the files for the Voodoo Banshee driver to a directory. 3) Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. Double-click on Display. 4) Click the Settings tab then click "Advanced Properties" 5) Then under "Change Display Type/Advanced Display" click "Change" 6) Click "Have Disk" and enter the path specified in Step 2 plus the Win98 directory. 7) When asked to choose a device, select "3Dfx Voodoo Banshee" 8) You may then be prompted to insert the Windows 95 Voodoo Banshee Driver Disk. Enter the path you specified in Step 2 again. 9) Windows will copy the drivers. Reboot the system when prompted. 10) Install DirectX 5.0 Limitations ----------- Running 640x480 16 Color will run SUPERVGA.DRV or VGA.DRV. No Voodoo Banshee features will be used. Switch to a different resolution or color depth. Full windowed hardware acceleration with this version of the drivers is only possible when running at 16bpp modes. Troubleshooting --------------- #### Problem: After installing the card, the system still detects my old card even though it is no longer in the system. Resolution: See Step 2 of the "Fresh Installation" instructions. Known Issues 1) Occasionally, when exiting Unreal, you come back to a black screen. Your system has not crashed. (Workaround: Move the mouse around and click to regain the desktop back again. To gain all colors back, right click on the desktop to and select "Properties". Select the Tab for "Settings". Change from your current display resolution to some other resolution, then click back on your setting and hit "Apply". For example: I am running at 800x600, I slide the bar to 640x480, then I slide the bar back to 800x600 and click "Apply".). 2) When playing Quake/Quake2 changing resolutions after you've begun the game may result in a crash, with the following error message, "Server was Killed" (Workaround: Do not attempt to change resolutions, once you've begun playing the game). Installation Procedures for the following Games: Unreal 1) Install Unreal. 2) Download 2 patches. From 3Dfiles, get "unrealpatch101.exe" at http://www.3dfiles.com/patches/unreal.shtml. Then go to Epic's Unreal site at http://unreal.epicgames.com/ and click on "Updates & Patches" on the left and get the files entitled Version 209 Public Beta (UnrealBeta209.zip) 3) Run the "unrealpatch101.exe" first by double clicking on it. It will ask the location that Unreal was installed in. Type it in or browse to it's directory (e.g. C:\Unreal). 4) Once that has completed, unzip the file "UnrealBeta209.zip" into the directory C:\Unreal\System\ where C: is the drive you have Unreal installed on. 5) Start Unreal through the Start Menu>Programs>Unreal>Play Unreal.exe and when it prompts you if you have a 3Dfx card installed, choose "Yes". When Unreal then tells you that "Unreal is only compatible with Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 cards" and asks if you still want to use your 3Dfx card, choose "Yes". 6) Play Unreal! Quake 1) Install Quake. 2) Update Quake to latest version, 1.06. Obtain the patch directly from iD Software, here http://www.idsoftware.com/quake/index.html. The file is entitled q101-106.zip 3) Patch your current version of Quake by unzipping the file into your Quake directory. Overwrite any file and then run patch.exe 4) Obtain the GLQuake exectuable and patch from 3Dfiles.com at http://www.3dfiles.com/patches/quake.shtml. 5) Run glq1114.exe and install all features. 6) Play Quake! Quake2 1) Install Quake2. 2) Start the game. From the menu, select Video. For the driver, choose 3Dfx OpenGL and hit apply. 3) Play Quake2! Hexen2 1) Install Hexen2. 2) Start the game. From the menu, select Video. For the driver, choose Default OpenGL and hit apply. 3) Play Hexen2!Download Driver Pack
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